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Best OSINT Tools for Person Investigation

Person investigation (people OSINT) is the practice of finding, identifying, and profiling individuals using only publicly available data. Starting from a name, username, email address, or phone number, these tools let you pivot across social networks, breach data, public records, and reverse-image search to build a complete picture. Below are the 450 tools in our catalogue tagged for person investigation, each indexed by the inputs it accepts and the outputs it produces so you can chain them together.

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Apollo.io icon

Apollo.io

B2B contact and company intelligence

FreemiumWebAPI
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DeHashed

Breach intelligence and credential search

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GitHub User Search icon

GitHub User Search

Search public GitHub users and repos

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Google Maps

Maps, places, and street-level imagery

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Google Reverse Image Search

Find visually similar images on Google

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Have I Been Pwned icon

Have I Been Pwned

Check exposure in known data breaches

FreemiumWebAPI
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Hunter.io

Find and verify professional emails

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LinkedIn Search

Search people and companies on LinkedIn

FreemiumWebMobile App
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Maigret

Username search across thousands of sites

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Maltego

Visual OSINT link-analysis platform

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PhoneInfoga

Advanced phone number OSINT tool

FreeOSSCLIWeb
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Reddit Search icon

Reddit Search

Search public Reddit content and users

FreeWebMobile App
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Sherlock

Find social accounts by username

FreeOSSCLI
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SpiderFoot

Automated OSINT reconnaissance framework

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TikTok Search icon

TikTok Search

Search public TikTok profiles and videos

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TinEye

Reverse image search and tracking

FreemiumWebBrowser Extension
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Truecaller

Caller ID and reverse phone lookup

FreemiumWebMobile App
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Wayback Machine

View archived versions of web pages

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WhatsMyName

Username enumeration across many sites

FreeOSSWebCLI
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Yandex Image Search

Yandex reverse image search

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192.com

UK people finder via electoral roll and records

FreemiumWeb
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220vk

VKontakte relationship and analytics tool

FreeWeb
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411

US people search and reverse phone directory

FreemiumWeb
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800notes

Crowdsourced reverse phone lookup for spam and scam calls

FreeWeb
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ADS-B Exchange

an unfiltered flight tracking network using ADS-B data from aircraft and comm

FreemiumWebAPI
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ARETE Bellingcat Toolkit

Bellingcat curated OSINT toolkit

FreeWeb
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Abstract Phone Validation API

Phone validation and carrier lookup API

FreemiumWebAPI
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Advanced Background Checks

US people search aggregating public-record contact data

FreemiumWeb
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Advangle

Visual advanced-search query builder for Google and Bing

FreeWeb
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AeroLeads

a prospecting platform for finding business emails, phone numbers, and compan

FreemiumWebBrowser Extension
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Africa OSINT Toolbox

Africa-focused OSINT directory by ANCIR

FreeWeb
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America Phone Book

US reverse phone lookup and people directory

FreemiumWeb
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AnyWho

Free US white-pages directory

FreeWeb
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Anymail Finder

an email discovery and verification platform for finding deliverable professi

FreemiumWebAPI
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Apache Tika

Extract text and metadata from any document type

FreeOSSCLIAPI
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Archive.is

Archive web pages for evidence

FreeWeb
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Archive.today

Create permanent web page snapshots

FreeWeb
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ArchiveBox

a self-hosted web archiving system for saving pages, media, PDFs, and browser

FreeOSSWebCLI
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ArchiveWeb.page

Local WACZ browser archive recorder

FreeOSSBrowser ExtensionDesktop App
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Asset Locator

Public-records gateway for asset and property search

FreeWeb
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Aviation Public Records

Directory of free aircraft and pilot record lookups

FreeWeb
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Avvo

US lawyer directory and reviews

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BAILII

Free UK/Ireland/EU legal information archive

FreeWeb
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BR's EXIFextracter

Windows tool exporting photo EXIF metadata to CSV in bulk

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Babel Street

Multilingual OSINT and PAI platform

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Backmoji

Retrieve a Snapchat account's Bitmoji avatar

FreeWeb
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Barkov.net

VK and OK audience-search tools filtering users by group, demographics, activity

FreemiumWeb
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BeenVerified

People search and background reports

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BeenVerified Phone Lookup

US background check and arrest record search

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Betaface

Face detection, attribute analysis and matching API

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Bing Visual Search

Microsoft visual and reverse image search

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Blackbird

Username and email reconnaissance across 600+ sites

FreeOSSCLIWeb
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Bluesky Search

Bluesky built-in search for public accounts, posts, feeds, and decentralized

FreeWebMobile App
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BoatInfoWorld

Search US documented vessels by name, number, or owner

FreeWeb
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BrandMentions

a brand monitoring service for finding web and social mentions across public

FreemiumWeb
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Brandwatch

Social intelligence and monitoring platform

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BreachDirectory

Search breach exposure by email or user

FreemiumWebAPI
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Bulk Solutions CNAM

Bulk CNAM caller-ID name lookup for US phone numbers

FreemiumWebAPI
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Buster

Email reconnaissance Python CLI

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CUPP

Generates a target-specific password wordlist from personal details

FreeOSSCLI
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